Looking tired, sagging, and older than you feel? Our facial aesthetic surgical services include deep-plane neck lifts and face lifts, as well as SMAS (superficial musculoaponeurotic system) procedures to elevate and restore your youthful appearance. Often paired with discrete and carefully placed fat grafting and brow lifting to give you a natural smooth appearance. These options are performed via well-hidden inconspicuous incisions that allow you to be back out with friends in 2 weeks on average. Achieve a refreshed look - a confidence boost without anyone knowing how you turned back the clock!
Do you have sagging or puffy eyelids that make you look tired or older than you feel? Our eyelid procedures are a popular beauty enhancement that can help you look more alert and refreshed. We utilize the latest techniques in plastic surgery to create natural-looking results that last. Upper and lower blepharoplasty surgery effectively address the upper and lower lids anatomy that may need adjusting. These procedures offer long-lasting, minimally invasive solutions that are nearly imperceptibly performed through minute incisions (often in upper eyelid crease and via transconjunctival (inside the eyelid) incision on the lower lid), helping to restore your smooth, refreshed and awake eye lid appearance you deserve.
If you're seeking improved facial harmony through modifying the shape and size of your nose ("nose job"), or simply want a straighter nose to boost your confidence to help you look, feel, and breathe your best. Dr. Urbinelli provides world-class plastic surgery and non-surgical (liquid rhinoplasty) techniques. He utilizes both open and closed (endonasal) rhinoplasty, incorporating structural and preservation techniques including but not limited to: septoplasty, rib grafting (autologous vs. cadaver), and ultrasonic bone reshaping with the latest technology, including piezotome for controlled bony movements/reshaping.
Pregnancy and childbirth can take a toll on your body, but our mommy makeover procedure focuses on beauty enhancement to help you regain your confidence. We offer a customized treatment plan that may include breast augmentation, breast lift, tummy tuck, buttock augmentation and liposuction as part of our plastic surgery options to help you achieve your desired look. As one of the few surgeons in the area who offers drain-less tummy tucks, this option not only is more comfortable postoperatively for the patients but also improves the overall outcomes of mobility, reduced seromas, and overall improved scars (due to progressive internal tension sutures).
Do you have stubborn areas of body fat that just won't go away despite diet and exercise? Or have you lost weight but are now struggling with significant loose skin that hangs and gets in the way? We offer a range of beauty contouring options, both surgical and non-surgical, to shape and eliminate body fat, tighten skin, and help you achieve the body you deserve. Our procedures include fat grafting, power-assisted liposuction, abdominal etching (hi-definition body sculpting), Renuvion (J-plasma energy delivered under the skin) for skin tightening without excision, tummy tuck (abdominoplasty), fleur-de-lis skin removal, 360 degree body lift, lateral and medial thigh lift, arm lift (brachioplasties), and any other areas of concern. If you’ve lost buttock fullness after weight loss or breast fullness after breastfeeding, we have effective solutions like breast lifts (mastopexy) or buttock lifts, to address those changes.
Are you feeling self-conscious about heavy breast tissue or a lack of balance with your body? If your breasts have sagged after weight loss, breastfeeding, or childbirth, or if you feel that gravity has taken it's toll, a mastopexy, or breast lift, can be a great option for a "reset" to help restore your confidence and breast volume/shape. We offer short scar, vertical, wise-pattern (inverted-T) and small crescentic breast lifts - tailoring to each patients' needs, anatomy & goals.
Men with excess chest tissue often experience discomfort and a lack of confidence in their appearance, in clothes or undressed. This plastic surgery procedure is an excellent beauty enhancement option that can help restore your confidence by giving you a flat, toned chest through minimally invasive techniques, leaving your chest looking fit, trim, and muscular. We also perform fat grafting and fillers to pectoralis, deltoids, rectus abdominus muscles for improved fuller muscle contours or other areas of augmentation for men (buttocks and penile enhancements)
Are you seeking beauty enhancement with plumper, more defined lips? If lip thinning is affecting your beautiful smile, our lip augmentation or lip lift procedures can help restore your confidence. We utilize top-quality dermal fillers, fat graft, or surgical/non-surgical lip lifts to create natural-looking, long-lasting results.
If you're looking to achieve facial balance and rejuvenation, facial implants or facial fillers (Juvederm, Resytlane, Versa, Sculptra, or fat grafting) can help. We offer a variety of options for the cheeks, chin, jawline, temples, nasolabial folds or under eyes that have hollowed, earlobes that have deflated and nose (liquid rhinoplasty) to assist you in achieving the look you want with minimal downtime.
If you're facing challenges with hair loss, our range of hair restoration treatments can serve as an essential part of your hair enhancement journey, helping you regain a more full, healthy head of hair. Our skilled team utilizes the latest techniques, including robotic assisted follicular unit extraction (FUE) (ARTAS) and follicular unit transfer, as well as non-surgical hair stimulation to deliver natural-looking results that not only enhance your appearance but also contribute to your gain in confidence. As one of the only providers in Upstate NY with this technology we are bringing the best and most comfortable methods to our patients seeking hair-loss options.
Do you have wrinkles, sun damage, or other imperfections on your skin? Our skin resurfacing and tightening treatments can help you achieve a smoother, more youthful complexion. We offer a range of options, including light to medium or deeper chemical peels as well as micro-coring with the latest skin tightening technology, Ellacor. All treatments area aimed at promoting skin rejuvenation and improved skin health without the need for plastic surgery or the downtime!
If you have prominent ears, enlarged stretched out earlobes, deflated earlobes from aging or suffered an earlobe tear from an earring and are ready to fix these issues or you just don't like that your ears stand out in pictures and you avoid wearing your hair up due to cosmetic concerns, then otoplasty may be the solution you're looking for. These plastic surgery procedures are well-established and can be performed in the comfort of the office or in the operating room (if you prefer) with minimal downtime, offering significant improvement and long lasting, satisfying results.
At Premier Aesthetics, our team is led by our medical director and board certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Leo Urbinelli, MD, MA, FAAP. He and his team are dedicated to providing the best patient experience while achieving your aesthetic/reconstructive goals. We specialize in a wide range of plastic surgical and non-surgical procedures and treatments, to ensure each patient receives personalized attention and outstanding care.
Dr. Urbinelli is passionate in providing care for adults and children who require facial, breast, or body reconstructive procedures, and he has dedicated his career to cosmetic and/or functional enhancements for patients for over 15 years. This is beyond his long journey of scientific study in his college days and beyond.
As a native Upstate, New Yorker Dr. Urbinelli chose to pursue his undergraduate degree close to home, at Cornell University, where he balanced his academics with his athletic endeavors as a Division 1 athlete in wrestling. After college, he chose to pursue a medical research Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, MA While there, he worked alongside excellent mentors who encouraged him to pursue a career in medicine. While continuing his research and thesis work, he completed a Master's Degree in Medical Sciences from Boston University School of Medicine. After this he was confident medicine would be his devotion and he returned to Upstate, NY to complete a M.D. degree at SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse, NY. It was here he fell in love with human anatomy and the detailed hands-on work and impact that surgery entailed.
In medical school, he finished at the top of his class and received multiple Awards/Scholarships for Academic excellence, Integrity and Leadership. He was elected as a member of the school's AOA National Honor Society (for service and academic achievement) and chosen to serve as President of this Society as well. After med school, he obtained his top choice of residency in plastic surgery at the prestigious NYU School of Medicine's Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery (IRPS) - often regarded and ranked as the top plastic surgery residency in the US. It was here that he had the opportunity to learn from the best and brightest leaders of the field of plastic surgery - under the mentorship of Drs. Joseph McCarthy (pioneer of Craniofacial Surgery and distraction osteogenesis) and Eduardo Rodriguez (credited with matching Microsurgery w/Craniofacial surgery for uniquely complex patients - including the most complete face transplant surgeries to date); Aesthetic and Reconstructive Leaders such as Drs. Charles Thorne, Sherrell Ashton, Alan Matarasso, Daniel Baker, Nicholas Tabbal, Nolan Karp, Jamie Levine, David Staffenberg, Robert Allen Sr. (pioneer of the DIEP free flap for breast reconstruction), Babak Mehrara, Peter Cordeiro, Joseph Disa, Andrea Pusic, David Chiu, and many others who have had huge impacts in the field of plastic surgery and Dr. Urbinelli. He spent numerous months of dedicated cosmetic and reconstructive surgery at the largest cosmetic hospital in the US, Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital (MEETH), as well as operating at one of the top dedicated cancer centers in the US, Memorial Sloane Kettering (MSKCC), in addition to serving as Chief Resident for Hand and Plastic Surgery at Bellevue Hospital (a historic and revered institution, as the oldest public hospital in the US serving all those who need care in the tri-state area and largest city in the US - NYC).
After these fantastic experiences, Dr. Urbinelli chose to gain additional training and expertise beyond standard residency training by pursuing a post-graduate fellowship, and adjunct faculty position at the University of Southern California (USC)/Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) Pediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship Program under the guidance of Dr. Mark Urata (chairman of both USC Plastic Surgery and Oral Surgery Programs). This program is the largest volume and one of the top Craniofacial programs in N. America. There in LA, he worked alongside colleagues and mentors at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, CHLA and Kaiser Hospital of Downtown Los Angeles where he gained new approaches and a "bicoastal" perspective, which he incorporates for his practice today.
After completing Fellowship in Los Angeles, he was then recruited to lead and serve as Assistant Professor, Chief of Pediatric Plastic Surgery and Co-Director for the Cleft and Craniofacial Program at Oregon Health & Science Univerisity (OHSU)/Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland, OR. In this role, he led the Pediatric Plastic Surgery and Craniofacial program to new heights, scoring in the top 90th% for safety and outcomes across all Pediatric Hospitals in the US and grew the program to on of the top 5% of hospitals for volume of pediatric plastic surgery cases in the US. Additionally he taught medical students, residents and other physicians and led staff in the multi-disciplinary care of complex reconstructive and cosmetic patients in the greater PNW area (covering an area from N. California, Washington, Idaho and Montana). After 5 years (2016-2021) in this role, he chose to step away from his academic hospital-based position and found a new path to serve his patients as Medical Director and Founder of PNW Plastic Surgery.
After 3 years of establishing a busy and thriving solo-private practice at PNW Plastic Surgery, he and his wife, (also a native of Upstate, NY), felt the strain of the long-distance from family in NY and on the East Coast. In the Fall of 2024 they made the decision to move back to Upstate, NY (very difficult decision to leave their practices, patients and friends from the PNW, but excited and happy to be coming home again!)
Dr. Urbinelli has now returned to Upstate NY to offer his unique, personalized surgical services to patients locally here in Central New York (CNY) and beyond (for those that travel in from afar to seek his services). His mission is to create a practice for adult and pediatric patients to come and receive personalized care, with fine detail and a commitment to excellent service with a refined touch - "where patients are treated like family".
Dr. Urbinelli's diverse experience, his unique collection of skills and knowledge have allowed him to offer world-class, advanced approaches in plastic surgery with natural results to Upstate, NY not previously available. His focus on individualized care and a refusal to use adhere to a "one size fits all" approach for his patients, allows bespoke plastic surgery catered to the goals of each individual patient.
For patients seeking the most comprehensive approach to achieving their aesthetic or functional goals and restor their natural beauty and confidence, look no further and see for yourself our commitment to exceptional care and reproducibly excellent results.
5800 Heritage Landing Drive, Suite B, East Syracuse, NY, USA
Phone: 315-464-0158 Fax: 315-565-2258
